US1222450A - Drinking-cup and container. - Google Patents

Description

S. H. NUCKOLLS.

DRINKING CUP AND CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 15. I916.

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DRINKING-CUP AND CONTAINER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 15, 1916. Serial No. IMAGE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL H. NUoKoLLs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drinking- Cups and Containers, of which the following is a speeificationl My invention relates to containers put up in pad or book form and it hasfor its ob- .ject the provision of containers such as a drinking cup and the like put in such form as to be particularly useful to motorists.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the detailed description which now follows:

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a pad of containers adapted for use as drinking cups and showing the pad closed.

'Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the shown in Fig. l but with the cover of pad raised and partly broken away.

Like numerals designate corresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawing.

Referring to the drawing it Wlll be seen that the invention comprises a pad having covers 5 and 6 and a binding strip 7 of flexible material which unites the covers 5 and 6 and constitutes a hinged element for cover 5. The drinking cups are indicated at 8 and a plurality of these cups is held in the padded formation shown by staples or other'bindmg means 9 of usual and well-known form.

Each of the drinking cups comprises a front wall 10 and a rear wall 11 and the front walls of each of the cups is cut away as indicated at 12. A line of perforations 13 provides a weakened portion to enable the body portions of the cups to be readily detached from the portions held by the staples 9 and it is to he noted that these lines of perforations adjacent the outer edges of the cup pass through both the front and the rear walls of the cup across the portions 14 of said cups but that between these portions 14;, the perforations pass through only the rear walls of the cups because the cut-away portions extend below the line of the perforations. Thus the cutaway portion 12; serves pad the the triple function of so relating the parts that the cups are secured by double strength attachment adjacent their outer edges so that it requires a decided pull to separate the cups from the pad but after this separation has started the resistance thereto is ma terially reduced by the cut-away portion; enabling the user to readily separate the front and rear walls of the cup because it causes the rear walls to project outwardly beyond the front walls and thereby provides a portion adapted to be engaged by the thumb or thumb nail to aid in opening the cup and in addition provides one smooth edge to be placed between the lips of the user, it being apparent that a serratededge would be oh jectionable in this relation.

If desired a rubber band 21 may be secured to one of the covers and serve as means for holding the pad in closed condition.

I am aware of the fact that paper drinking cups are well-known but it am not aware of the factthat they have ever before been associated as shown in the accompanyin drawing and set forth in the appended claims.

Having described my invention what I claim is 1. A device of the character described, comprising a plurality of drinking cups of paper arranged in superimposed relation, covers upon the opposite sides of said drinking cups, binding strips uniting said covers, binding members passing through said drinking cups and weakened portions extending across said drinkin cups to render the outer portions thereof etachable from the portions that are connected to the pad, each of said drinking cups comprising a front wall and a rear wall, one of said walls being centrally cut away, said cutaway portion extending below said line of perforations so that along the center of the clip the perforations extend through only one of the walls of the cups but extend through both of I t the walls of the cups adjacent the outer edges thereof.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with a plurality of containers folded to fiat form and arranged in Patented'hpr. MD, WW;

ad formation, and covers for said pad, each In testimony whereof I affix my signature of said COIltiEiIlGIi confiariosing front aid rear in presence of two Witnesses. Walls one 0 sai Wa s eing centi'a cut- 1 away and each of said containers being pro- SAMUEL NUGLOLLS vided with a line of perforations extending Witnesses: thei'eacross in a plane above the lower edge 1*. I. IIncKoLLs of said cutaway portion. LEO Snnnnnmu

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